The Oblivion Seekers
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These captivating stories and journal notes are the work of an extraordinary young Arabic scholar and Sufi mystic of the late nineteenth century. A journalist for French-language newspapers, Isabelle Eberhardt dressed as a man to travel throughout Islamic North Africa. As a European who "went native," she offers a unique perspective on the struggle against colonial domination.
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Acclaimed by The Guardianas "highly literary, evocative, romantic," these tales reflect the author's nomadic life and passionate adventures in sun-baked Algerian villages and amid the vastness of the Sahara. Paul Bowles, a master of the short story and author of The Sheltering Sky,translated Eberhardt's stories from the French.A fellow expatriate who made his home in North Africa, Bowles contributes a preface that offers an intriguing portrait of Eberhardt, who drowned in 1904 at the age of 27 but lives forever in a small but superb body of work.
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